Re: [Matplotlib-users] Agg eps and bounding box / OO problems

[Darren D. <dd...@co...>]

On Monday 05 February 2007 05:23:04 pm John Hunter wrote:
> On 2/5/07, Darren Dale <dd...@co...> wrote:
> > I respectfully disagree. The current behavior is consistent with other
> > output formats, such as png. If we want to support tight bounding boxes,
> > maybe it would be better to do so with a kwarg.
>
> I'm happy to be wrong (especially because then we don't have any work
> to do) but I don't see the tight bounding box as inconsistent with
> Agg's behavior.  I agree that the *.ps output should be consistent
> with the Agg png behavior since neither make a claim to clip the image
> to the visible elements.  But *.eps implies a bounding box, it might
> make sense to offer a bounding box that is reduced to the visible
> elements.

Maybe I'm confusing two issues. I'm comparing png's image extent with eps's 
bounding box.

> I certainly don't feel strongly, nor do I think it would be terribly
> hard to do.....

Perhaps reducing the image size to the visible elements would be a good option 
for all output formats?